Some legal logging is done by a few people. Most illegal logging is done by military personnel.
The legal logging is done by Plan Sierra working out of San Jos? de las Matas.
There is some done by the Le?n Jim?nes family near Bonao.
There is some legal harvesting of mesquite and other scrub trees by charcoal makers for export (mostlyto hait?)
However, hardwoods that you are looking for were harvested in the latter half of the XIX century....all gone, and they are so slow growing that it would be a centruy or so to see some more....lignum Vitae for example...
HB
Oh yeah, the WHY no investment? NO guarantee that after you have the trees grown up you will be able to harvest them. Manuel Arsenio Ure?a, one of the nation's NOTABLES, was thinking of doing this, (after all, he is growing macadamia for export) but he backed away for the lack of any guarantee whatsoever....